Richard James KNIBBS, son of
Richard KNIBBS and Catherine GOLDSMITH
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was born 04 May 1834 in Manchester, Lancashire, England. He married Catherine MORRIS
02 February 1863 in Paddington, London, Middlesex, England. He died 14 August 1925 in Tankerton, Whitstable, Kent, England. Catherine MORRIS was born abt. 1836 in Swansea, South Glamorganshire, Wales. She died 24 March 1901 in Deal, Kent, England.

In 2013, I was contacted by the current occupier of this address, Matthew Crockatt with the following information:"Inspired by some recent DIY I have been doing a little research into our house in Whitstable, Kent. I thought you would be interested to know that the first owners were Richard James Knibbs and his wife Catherine. It seems Richard was a Railway man, a foreman. When he bought the house there was a railway line - The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway (aka Crab and Winkle) - running along the bottom of the garden. Richard would have been close to trains all the time. He could have stood at the bottom of the garden and waved to passing drivers!The house at Whitstable was one of the first built on the street. "__________

From the Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald, Saturday 22 August 1925: KNIBBS —On the 14th August, 1925, at his residence, 24, Clare Road, Tankerton, Richard James Knibbs, in his 92nd year. Interred in Deal Cemetery. __________From the Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald - Saturday 22 August 1925: SAD DEATH OF WHITSTABLE NONAGENARIAN. FATAL FALL FROM BED.Mr Richard James Knibbs, of 24, Clare Road, Tankerton, an old gentleman who had reached the advanced age of 91, and who was well-known to many people in the town, passed away on Friday morning, his death being due to heart failure following an accident on July 28th, when he apparently slipped in getting out of bed and suffered a fractured thigh as the result of the fall. The late Mr. Knibbs was a retired locomotive foreman and pensioner of the Southern Railway Communitv. He retired some 25 years ago. The East Kent Coroner (Mr. Rutley Mowl) held an inquest at the house on Saturday afternoon. Charles Knibbs, schoolmaster, of 78 Lyndhurst Road, Thornton Heath Surrey, said his father was 91 years of age and had been in very poor health for some time. Witness arrived at Tankerton on the evening of July 28th after his father had met with the accident. He did not complain, but was very feeble and gradually got weaker until he expired at 7.30 a.m. on August 14th. Witness was with him when In died_ Miss Catherine Knibbs of 24, Mar Road, Tankerton, said she had kept house and looked after her father for the past 25 years. About 4 a.m. on July 28th he was sleeping in a room on the opposite side of the passage to her father's room with her door open. She heard a thud and groaning and upon going in to her father, found him lying on the floor of his bedroom. He had got out of bed. He complained of his leg. She wrapped him in blankets and sent for the doctor. He changed very much after the accident and during the past week got much worse. She was with him when he died. Dr. C. E. Etheridge, of Norfolk Cottage, Tankerton Road, Whitstable, said deceased was a patient of his for the past 23 years. For the past two years he had been very feeble and had been confined to his room. Witness arrived at the house at about 5 a.m. on July 28 and found deceased on the floor in a sitting position and resting against the :bed. He was in a good deal of pain. Witness got him on the bed and found that he had a fracture of the right femur close to the hip joint. Nothing could be done for the fracture but to keep him in bed. For the first three days he was very bad, but then rallied for six or seven days. He then began to weaken and his heart got worse. 'The cause of death was cardiac failure, precipitated by the accident. The jury returned a verdict of Death from Misadventure and, with th Coroner, expressed their sympathy witt the relatives. __________

KNIBBS Catherine of "Aberfoyle" Western Road Deal (wife of Richard James Knibbs) died 24 March 1901 Administration Canterbury 9 August to the said Richard James Knibbs retired railway-foreman £117 6s. 9d.

In 1911, she was living back with her father at 24 Clare Road, Whitstable, Kent. We know from her father's obituary that Catherine lived with him and cared for up to the time he died in 1925.__________